medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
His toes are gone but the remnants of a foot are still there ;-))
MG
>From: Cecil T Ault <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] pilgrimage practices
>Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:58:30 -0500
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Hmm. I was told that black Peter's foot had been kissed away.
>yrs, tom ault
>
>On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:55:29 -0700
> Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>>Could this not be just a pious practice, like that of rubbing the foot of
>>the seated statue of Saint Peter at Saint Peter's basilica, whose
>>beginnings are lost in the mists of time? Saint Peter's foot, as I'm sure
>>you know, is practically worn away from the activity.
>>MG
>>p.s. I have learned that the need to touch is by no means restricted to
>>children as is evidenced by the "do not touch" signs that proliferate in
>>museums.
>>
>>
>>>From: Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
>>> culture <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: [M-R] pilgrimage practices
>>>Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:24:13 -0600
>>>
>>>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>>>
>>>Dear listmembers,
>>>I wonder if anyone knows of studies, preferably not in Spanish which I
>>>don't read
>>>very well, on the custom of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela of placing
>>>their
>>>hand on the base of the trumeau of the west portal, the Portico de la
>>>Gloria, under
>>>the statue of St James, before they enter the church. There is actually
>>>a handprint
>>>rubbed into the trumeau, supposedly by the identically placed hands of
>>>innumerable
>>>pilgrims. I've run across another instance of this on a column in the
>>>crypt of the
>>>church of Notre-Dame at Orcival, in the Auvergne, just in front of the
>>>relic (or
>>>image) shrine. Does anyone know of other such instances of this
>>>practice?
>>>Cheers,
>>>Jim Bugslag
>>>
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